An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.

The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.

It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.

We’ll all say that. We’ll all go on and make the place safe. Roads, cities. New sky, new soil. Until it’s all some kind of Siberia or Northwest Territories, and Mars will be gone and we’ll be here, and we’ll wonder why we feel so empty. Why when we look at the land we can never see anything but our own faces.

We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape